What are the "must have" jQuery plugins? [closed]
My list:
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Autocomplete
- Input field to enable users quickly finding and selecting some value, leveraging searching and filtering.
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JSON
- JSON plugin retrieving retrieving and manipulating json data.
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Cookie
- Simple & lightweight utility plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies.
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Vaildation
- For validating form input data.
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UI
- Full-featured themable and ready-to-use widgets and more...
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Interface
- Dragging, Sortables, Droppables, plug-and-play components and visual effects.
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Cycle
- Versatile and lightweight image slideshow plugin.
We currently use:
Most impressive
- Layout (dock, pin, splitter) - just amazing
Jquery UI elements:
- Tabs - tabbed UI
- AutoComplete - suggestion box from web service
- DatePicker - nice calendar date picker
Useful community plugins:
- Scrollable - scrolls any div
- Scrollpane - control scrollbar appearance
- Table sorter - table sorting (client-side) for any simple table
- QuickSearch - instant searching of table content
- Validate - form validation (required / type / custom regEx)
- HotKeys - traps for key shortcuts. Captures EVERY key on the keyboard. Awesome.
- BlockUI - awesome modal dialogs
- Curvy Corners - anti-aliased by default
- Tokenised input (or Facebook autocomplete with Xs) - Facebook style tokenised autocomplete
More to come, I'll add links etc...
I think that Flot plugin (a plotting library / plugin) deserves a place in this "must-have" list.
In addition, it is used here, in StackOverflow, to display the histogram of the reputation in the user account page.
I'll list one I'm working on...
My jLINQ plugin is a jQuery version of .NET LINQ. It's made for working with in-memory collections (not talking directly to the server) and let's you use syntax similar to the following.
var results = $.from(data)
.ignoreCase()
.startsWith("firstName","m")
.or("n")
.isNot("administrator")
.orderBy("lastName")
.select();
It supports a bunch of other commands that you find in LINQ for ordering and grouping along with most of the selection commands like contains, between, greaterThan, etc...
Here is a demo - It's stable, but still in progress
Maybe not must have, but might be useful as it progresses...